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FORTY-FIRST  ANNIVERSARY 


STATE    CONVENTION 


BAPTIST  DENOMINATION  IN  S.  C, 


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SPARTANBURG,  JULY  26th-28tii,  1861. 


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MINUTES 


Spartanburg,  Friday,  July  26,  1861. 

The  Introductory  Sermon  was  preached  at  11,  A.  M.,  by 
Eev.  J.  M.  C.  Breaker,  from  Matt.  5  :  14 — "  Ye  are  the  light 
of  the  loorld."  At  3J  o'clock,  P.  M.,  the  Convention  met, 
and  was  called  to  order  by  the  President,  Hon.  J.  B.  O'Neall, 
and  the  names  of  delegates  enrolled. 

Charleston  Association. — James  Huckins,  J.  Scott,  I. 
Nicholes,  J.  M.  C.  Breaker,  E.  R.  Stokes,  W.  B.  Carson, 
T.  W.  Mellichamp,  W.  D.  Rice,  J.  A.  Chambliss. 

Edgefield  Association. — Z.  Watkins,  J.  H.  \Yideman. 

Welsh  Neck  Association. — J.  0.  B.  Dargan,  J.  C.  Phelps, 
A.  E.  Mclver,  W.  J.  Lunn. 

Savannah  River  Association. — H.  A.  Duncan,  H.  C.  Smart. 

Tyger  River  Association. — J.  G.  Landrum,  J.  C.  Furman, 
J.  P.  Boyce,  B.  Manly,  R.  Furman,  C.  H.  Judson,  0.  E. 
Edwards,  J.  Bomar,  H.  Mitchell,  A.  C.  Bomar,  A.  B. 
Woodruff,  J.  J.  Boyd,  W.  T.  "Wilkins,  C.  Foster,  J.  G. 
Harris,  Jr.,  C.  J.  Elford,  S.  Griffith,  P.  C.  Edwards,  G.  W. 
Brooks,  J.  A.  Broaddus,  M.  D.  Dickey. 

Reedy  River  Association. — J.  B.  O'jSTeall,  T.  A.  Perritt, 
A.  C.  Stepp. 

Saluda  River  Association. — JSTo  delegates. 

JEdisto  Association. — No  delegates. 

*  As  some  persons  may  wish  to  preserve  and  bind  the  Minutes  of  the 
Convention,  it  has  been  thought  best  to  number  the  pages  continuously 
from  year  to  year.  The  pages  of  this  year's  Minutes  will  be  found  num- 
bered with  reference  to  those  of  last  year. 


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Salem  Association. — H.  A.  Glenn. 

Bethel  Association. — No  delegates. 

Charleston  Female  Missionary  Society  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church. — No  delegate. 

Young  Men's  Missionary  Society  of  Furman  University. — 
P.  D.  Gold. 

Newberry  Church. — No  delegates. 

Newberry  District  Bible  Society. — S.  Pratt,  T.  H.  Pope. 

Ehoree  Association. — No  delegates. 

Moriah  Association. — No  delegates. 

Tiuelve  Mile  Association. — No  delegates. 

Barnwell  Association. — ~W.  T.  Sanders. 

Antioch  Bible  Society. — No  delegates. 

Santee  Bible  Society. — W.  J .  Snider. 

Columbia  Association. — No  delegates. 

The  Convention  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers, 
when  the  following  were  elected : 

Hon.  J.  B.  O'Neall,  President. 
Rev.  J.  G.  Landrum,  Vice  President. 
Rev.  J.  M.  C.  Breaker,  Secretary. 
Prof.  C.  H.  Judson,  Treasurer. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Eev.  Ii.  A.  Duncan,  and  the 
Convention  proceeded  to  business. 

Julius  C.  Smith  was  received  as  a  delegate  from  the 
"Wentworth  Street  Baptist  Church,  Charleston. 

The  Broad  River  Association,  on  application,  was  received 
to  membership  in  the  Convention.  Delegates — W.  Curtis, 
M.  C.  Barnett,  J.  S.  Ezell,  J.  Jeffries,  H.  G.  Gaffney. 

An  invitation  was  extended  by  the  Chair  to  ministers  of 
our  own  and  other  denominations,  not  delegates,  to  take 
seats  and  participate  in  the  deliberations,  which  was  ac- 
cepted by  Rev.  M.  J.  Sumner,  Corresponding  Secretary  of 
Domestic  and  Indian  Mission  Board,  Rev.  J.  Gibbs,  Rev. 
Mr.  Farrow. 


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MINUTES.  95 

The  Standing  Committees  were  announced  by  the  Chair, 
as  follows : 

On  Preaching. — The  Pastor  and  Deacons  of  Spartanburg 
Church,  E.  R.  Stokes,  C.  J.  Elford. 

On  time  and  place  of  next  meeting,  and  persons  to  perform 
stated  religious  services. — J.  0.  B.  Dargan,  J.  C.  Phelps,  C. 
H.  Judson,  Z.  "Watkins,  Julius  C.  Smith. 

On  Accounts. — P.  C.  Edwards,  A.  B.  Woodruff,  H.  A. 
Glenn,  T.  H.  Pope,  W.  T.  Sanders. 

On  nomination  of  Board  of  Agents. — H.  A.  Duncan,  R. 
Furnian,  B.  Manly,  A.  C.  Stepp,  P.  D.  Gold. 

On  notice  of  deceased  Ministers. — J.  G.  Landrum,  B.  Manly, 
"W.  Curtis,  J.  P.  Boyce,  James  Huckins,  J.  Jeffries. 

On  preparing  list  of  Ministers  and  their  post  offices. — J.  M. 
C.  Breaker,  J.  Bomar,  S.  Pratt,  W.  J.  Snider. 

On  minutes  and  letters  of  corresponding  bodies. — J.  C.  Fur- 
man,  I.  Nickoles,  T.  Scott,  S.  Griffith,  M.  D.  Dickey. 

On  motion  of  Dr.  J.  C.  Furman, 

Resolved,  That  we  heartily  concur  in  the  recommendation  of  our  Confed- 
erate Congress,  to  unite  in  making  our  late  signal  victories  the  occasion  of 
special  thanksgiving  to  God,  hy  appropriate  religious  services  on  the  ap- 
proaching Sabhath,  and  that  the  Committee  on  PreachiDg  be  instructed  to 
arrange  the  services  for  the  Sabbath  accordingly. 

Dr.  Curtis  offered  the  following  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  it  is  incumbent  upon  this  Convention  to  consider  if  imme- 
diate arrangements  cannot  be  made  for  the  revival  and  permanent  estab- 
lishment of  a  paper  as  the  the  organ  of  our  denomination  in  this  State. 

Made  the  special  order  for  to-morrow,  12  o'clock. 

On  motion  of  C.  J.  Elford,  the  special  order  for  the  report 
of  the  Sunday  School  Board  was  suspended,  in  order  that 
that  report  be  now  taken  up.  The  Corresponding  Secre- 
tary, Rev.  J.  O.  B.  Dargan,  then  presented  his  report. 
(See  Report — No.  1.)  Rev.  W.  D.  Rice  also  presented  his 
report,  as  General  Superintendent  of  Sunday  Schools. 
(See  Report— No.  2.) 


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On  motion,  these  reports  were  referred  to  a  Committee, 
consisting  of  brethren  Hnckins,  Curtis,  Landrum,  Manly, 
Elford,  and  Smart. 

The  Treasurer  presented  his  report,  which  was  referred 
to  the  Committee  on  Accounts.     (See  Report — No.  3.) 

On  motion,  it  was  agreed  that  the  sessions  of  the  Con- 
vention shall  continue  from  9  J,  A.  M.,  to  1,  P.  M.,  and 
from  4  to  6,  P.  M. 

The  Convention  then  adjourned.  Prayer  by  Rev.  I. 
Nieholes. 


Saturday,  July  27 — Morning  Session. 

The  Convention  met,  and  was  called  to  order  by  the 
President.     Prayer  by  Rev.  J.  G.  Landrum. 

The  Committee  on  the  report  of  the  Sunday  School  Board 
reported,  through  their  Chairman,  C.  J.  Elford.  After 
remarks  by  brethren  Dargan,  Elford,  Huckins,  Manly, 
Mclver,  Boyce,  and  Breaker,  the  report  was  agreed  to. 
(See  Report — No.  4.) 

The  Committee  on  time  and  place  of  next  meeting  re- 
ported, through  their  Chairman,  Julius  C.  Smith,  recom- 
mending that  the  next  session  of  the  Convention  be  held 
at  Greenville,  on  Friday  before  the  last  Sunday  in  July, 
1862  ;*that  Rev.  W.  Curtis  preach  the  Introductory  Sermon, 
Rev.  "W.  B.  Carson  his  alternate;  Rev.  J.  A.  Chambliss 
the  Charity  Sermon,  Rev.  J.  B.  Bostick  his  alternate. 
Agreed  to. 

On  motion  of  Dr.  J.  C.  Furman,  the  consideration  of  the 
report  of  the  Committee  on  the  plans  of  the  General  Asso- 
ciation of  Virginia,  in  view  of  the  comparative  smallness 
of  this  Convention,  was  postponed  to  our  next  meeting. 


MINUTES.  97 

Rev.  M.  T.  Sumner  addressed  the  Convention  in  behalf 
of  the  Domestic  and  Indian  Missions  of  the  Southern  Bap- 
tist Convention. 

On  motion  of  Dr.  R.  Furman,  it  was 

Resolved,  That  the  Convention  have  listened  with  interest  to  the  state- 
ments of  Brother  Sumner  in  regard  to  the  operations  and  the  wants  of  the 
Domestic  and  Indian  Mission  Board  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention ; 
and  we  hereby  commend  the  interests  of  this  Board  to  the  prayers  and  to 
the  continued  support  of  our  brethren  and  friends  throughout  the  State. 

On  motion,  it  was 

Resolved,  That,  in  consequence  of  the  absence  of  Brethren  Brantly,  Secre- 
tary, and  Carwile,  Treasurer,  of  the  Bible  Board,  no  report  has  been  made, 
it  is  ordered  that  the  Board  have  leave  until  the  next  session  to  make  out 
their  report. 

A  Committee  of  five,  to  nominate  the  Boards  of  the  Con- 
vention, was  appointed,  consisting  of  brethren  Carson, 
Chambliss,  Mitchell,  Gaffney,  and  Rice. 

On  motion  of  Dr.  Manly,  the  following  resolutions  were 
adopted : 

Resolved,  That,  notwithstanding  the  pressure  of  the  times,  the  Foreign 
Missionaries,  who  have  gone  into  heathen  lands,  in  reliance  upon  the  prom- 
ised support  of  the  Churches  at  home,  must  not  be  left  to  want ;  and  since 
the  loss  and  expense  of  their  recall  to  this  country  would  be  sufficient  to 
support  them  for  at  least  one  year  in  their  field,  we  believe  they  should  not 
be  withdrawn. 

Resolved,  That  it  be  earnestly  recommended  to  our  Churches  to  make 
continued  and  liberal  contributions  to  the  cause  of  Foreign  Missions. 

Dr.  Curtis  offered  the  following,  which  was  unanimously 
adopted : 

Resolved,  That,  in  the  present  peculiar  condition  of  our  political  affairs, 
it  becomes  us  thus  to  assure  our  beloved  country  of  our  sympathies,  prayers 
and  thanksgiving  on  her  behalf;  that  so  far  as  we  can  understand  the  re- 
markable openings  and  guidance  of  Divine  Providence,  we  have  but 
received,  in  almost  every  instance,  the  merciful  blessing  of  our  God,  as  ap- 
probation upon  the  plans  our  State  and  Southern  Confederacy  have  deemed 
it  best  to  adopt ;  that  now,  especially,  in  the  unprecedented,  vindictive  and 


98  MINUTES. 

deadly  strife  against  us,  to  which  those  who  but  recently  spoke  of  us  as 
brethren  are  urging  one  another,  we  can  but  rejoice  in  the  oneness  of  our 
brethren  of  this  State  in  prayer  and  effort  to  defend  our  homes,  our  liber- 
ties and  our  Churches,  and  encourage  them  to  be  assured  that,  as  hitherto, 
putting  our  faith  in  God,  though  each  of  us  may  have  much  to  bear,  yet  the 
rod  will  not  finally  rest  upon  us,  but  that  in  this  most  unrighteous  and  most 
wicked  attack  upon  our  otherwise  peaceful  homes,  the  wickedness  of  the 
wicked  will  return  on  their  own  heads. 

It  being  the  special  order  for  the  consideration  of  the 
question  of  a  denominational  State  paper,  after  remarks 
from  brethren  Curtis,  Carson,  Huckins,  Landrum,  J.  C. 
Fnrman,  and  Stepp,  the  whole  subject  was  laid  on  the 
table. 

Prof.  Judson  offered  the  following  resolutions,  which 
were  adopted : 

Resolved,  That,  in  order  to  meet  the  deficiency  of  funds  for  last  year's 
Minutes,  the  former  Secretary  be  requested  to  call  upon  any  Associations 
to  which  Minutes  were  sent,  but  which  have  sent  no  contributions  for  this 
object,  to  forward  to  the  Treasurer  ten  dollars  for  every  hundred  copies 
received. 

Resolved,  That  this  Convention  recommend  to  the  several  Associations 
represented  in  this  body  to  contribute  annually  a  definite  sum  for  Conven- 
tion Minutes,  at  the  rate  of  ten  dollars  for  every  one  hundred  copies 
desired. 

The  Convention  then  went  into  recess. 


Saturday — Afternoon  Session. 

The  Convention  met,  and  was  called  to  order  by  the 
President. 

The  committee  on  communications  from  corresponding 
bodies  reported,  through  their  Chairman,  Dr.  J.  C.  Fur- 
man,  "That  no  such  communications  have  come  into  their 
hands,  as  claiming  the  attention  of  this  Convention." 


MINUTES.  99 

The  committee  on  nomination  of  Boards  reported,  through 
their  Chairman,  Brother  Carson,  recommending  the  reap- 
pointment of  former  Boards.  Beport  adopted.  (See  Re- 
port— JSTo.  5.) 

The  committee  on  Accounts  reported,  through  their 
Chairman,  Prof.  Edwards,  "That  they  had  examined  the 
Treasurer's  report  submitted  to  them,  and  found  that  the 
monies  have  all  been  appropriated  according  to  the  will  of 
the  contributors,  and  are  all  properly  vouched  and  ex- 
plained. ISTo  other  accounts  were  submitted  to  them." 
Adopted. 

The  committee  on  list  of  ministers  reported,  through 
their  Chairman,  Brother  Breaker.     Beport  adopted. 

On  motion  of  Brother  Carson,  it  was 

Resolved,  That  we  earnestly  request  Brother  Carwile  to  continue  his 
valuable  services  as  Treasurer  of  the  Bible  Board,  believing  it  to  be  highly 
important  to  the  interests  of  that  Board. 

The  committee  on  nomination  of  Board  of  Agents  re- 
ported, through  their  Chairman,  Dr.  Manly,  recommending 
the  reappointment  of  the  former  Board.  Agreed  to.  (See 
Beport — No.  6.) 

The  Education  Board  presented  their  report  through 
their  Corresponding  Secretary,  Prof.  Judson.  (See  Re- 
port—No. 7.) 

On  motion  of  Dr.  Boyce,  it  was 

Ordered,  That  the  rule  for  the  presentation  and  consideration  of  the  re- 
ports of  the  several  Boards  of  the  Convention,  as  adopted  at  the  Conven- 
tion in  1858,  be  placed  among  the  "Kules  for  the  transaction  of  business." 

The  committee  on  preaching  announced  the  arrange- 
ments for  preaching  to-morrow,  as  follows  :  At  the  Baptist 
Church,  Rev.  Dr.  Broaddus  to  preach  in  the  morning  a 
thanksgiving  sermon,  to  be  followed  by  a  collection  for  the 
relief  of  our  sick  and  wounded  soldiers.  Rev.  Dr.  Manly 
to  preach  in  the  afternoon,  and  Rev.  James  Huckins  to 
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100  MINUTES. 

preach  the  charity  sermon  at  night.     At  the  Presbyterian 
Church,  Rev.  Dr.  J.  C.  Furman  to  preach  in  the  morning, 
and  Rev.  J.  A.  Chambliss  in  the  afternoon.    At  the  Metho- 
dist Church,  Rev.  Dr.  R.  Furman  to  preach  at  night. 
On  motion,  it  was 

Ordered,  That  the  collection  to  be  taken  up  after  the  charity  sermon  be 
divided  equally  between  the  Domestic  and  Indian  Mission  Board,  the 
Foreign  Mission  Board,  and  the  Education  Board. 

The  committee  on  deceased  ministers  submitted  their 
report,  which  was  adopted.     (See  Report — No.  8.) 

On  motion,  the  Sunday  School  Convention  were  allowed 
to  print  their  minutes  in  connection  with  those  of  the 
Convention. 

On  motion,  it  was 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Convention  be  tendered  to  the  Baptist 
Church  and  community  in  this  place  for  their  hospitable  entertainment  of 
the  Convention,  and  to  the  several  railroad  companies  for  their  reduction 
of  fare. 

After  prayer  by  Dr.  Boyce,  the  Convention  adjourned,  to 
meet  at  Greenville  on  Friday  before  the  last  Sunday  in 
July,  1862. 

J.  B.  O'KEALL,  President. 

J.  M.  C.  Breaker,  Secretary. 


Sunday,  July  28,  1861. 

Preaching  in  the  several  Churches  took  place  according 
to  arrangement.  The  collection  in  the  Baptist  Church  for 
the  relief  of  our  sick  and  wounded  soldiers  amounted  to 
about  one  hundred  and  thirty  dollars;  that  at  the  close  of 
the  charity  sermon  to  about  sixty  dollars. 


REPORTS 


1. — REPORT    OF    THE    SUNDAY    SCHOOL    AXD    COLPORTAGE    BOARD. 

In  accordance  with  the  recommendation  of  the  Convention,  contained  in 
report  No.  11,  page  63,  of  last  year's  proceedings,  the  Sunday  School  and 
Colportage  Board  held  a  meeting  at  Society  Hill,  August  8,  1860,  and 
unanimously  elected  a  General  Superintendent.  In  order  to  carry  out  fully 
the  objects  of  the  Convention,  the  following  resolutions  were  also  passed: 

Resolved,  That  the  General  Superintendent  be  instructed  to  visit  the 
Associations  and  present  the  cause  of  Sunday  Schools  and  Colportage.  and 
endeavor  to  secure  the  cooperation  of  judicious  brethren  as  District  Su- 
perintendents, whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  organize  schools,  to  collect  all 
statistics  connected  with  such  schools,  and  to  report  to  the  General 
Superintendent. 

Resolved,  That  it  is  desirable  that  a  general  Sunday  School  Convention 
be  held  at  some  suitable  time  and  place  every  year. 

Resolved,  That  the  General  Superintendent  be  instructed  to  press  the 
claims  of  colportage  upon  the  Churches,  and  recommend  the  appointment 
of  at  least  one  colporteur  for  each  Association,  whose  salary  shall  be  raised 
by  contributions  from  the  Churches  and  a  per-centage  upon  the  books  sold; 
and  that  each  Association  keep  a  depository  of  religious  books,  to  be  sup- 
plied by  raising  a  permanent  fund  of  not  less  than  one  thousand  dollars,  to 
be  perpetually  reimbursed  in  books,  and  that  the  General  Superintendent 
endeavor  to  impress  upon  the  Baptists  of  the  State  the  importance  of  the 
Southern  Baptist  Publication  Society. 

The  Corresponding  Secretary  was  appointed  General  Superintendent. 
But  feeling  it  his  duty,  on  account  of  the  earnest  opposition  of  his  Church, 
to  decline  the  appointment,  the  Board,  after  many  prayerful  consultations, 
succeeded  in  obtaining  the  valuable  services  of  Brother  W.  D.  Bice,  whose 
appointment  dates  from  ths  20th  of  November,  1860,  to  the  present  time. 
Brother  Bice's  report  is  submitted  below.  For  the  salary  of  Brother  Bice 
the  Board  rely  upon  the  pledges  made  by  the  brethren  last  year. 

From  the  8th  of  August,  1860,  to  the  time  of  Brother  Bice's  appointment, 
commencing  on  the  20th  of  November,  the  Corresponding  Secretary  acted 
as  voluntary  General  Superintendent,  under  the  authority  of  the  Board. 
Guided  by  the  directions  of  the  Board,  he  directed  a  circular  to  brethren  in 
every  District  of  the  State,  and  attended  in  person  several  meetings  of  the 
Associations.  In  all  of  his  efforts  in  the  great  and  good  cause,  he  was 
cheered  and  encouraged,  notwithstanding  the  difficulties  and  embarrass- 
ments from  various  adverse  causes,  with  which  he  had  to  contend. 


102  REPORTS. 

-For  further  information  in  regard  to  this  important  and  interesting  field 
of  labor,  the  Board  desires  to  refer  the  Convention  to  the  report  of  Brother 
Rice,  herewith  submitted. 

At  a  meeting  held  on  the  9th  instant,  the  following  order  was  taken: 

The  Board  desires  the  Corresponding  Secretary  to  state  to  the  Conven- 
tion that,  under  the  present  circumstances  of  the  country,  they  do  not  feel 
authorized  to  recommend  tbe  continuance  of  the  agency  beyond  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Convention,  but  submit  the  question  to  the  wisdom  of  that  body. 

The  brethren  who  pledged  their  several  amounts  for  the  salary  of  the 
General  Superintendent  will  please  pay  over  so  much  of  the  same  as  will  be 
necessary  to  a  settlement  with  Brother  Bice. 

It  would  be  injustice  to  Brother  Rice  to  close  this  report  without  remark- 
ing that  he  has  met  in  every  respect  the  expectations  of  the  Board.  His 
regular  reports  have  indicated  an  unwearied  zeal  and  an  earnest  and  devout 
desire  and  effort  in  all  ways  possible  to  promote  this  most  important  branch 
of  Christian  labor. 

Very  respectfully, 

J.  0.  B.  DARGAN, 
Corresponding  Secretary  Colportage  and  Sunday  School  Board. 


2. — REPORT  OF  THE  GENERAL  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  SUNDAY 

SCHOOLS. 

On  the  first  day  of  December  last  the  undersigned  entered  upon  the  work 
of  the  General  Superintendency  of  Baptist  Sunday  Schools  in  South  Caro- 
lina, for  which  the  Baptist  State  Convention,  at  its  last  sitting,  made  ar- 
rangements, under  appointment  of  the  Board.  At  the  time  indicated  above 
the  Sunday  School  cause  in  the  State  was  not  without  interest  manifested  in 
various  parts  of  it.  Brother  Dargan  had  appointed  District  Superintend- 
ents for  nearly  all  of  the  Districts  in  the  State.  Some  of  these  brethren 
had  entered  heartily  upon  the  good  work,  and  a  manifest  interest  began  to 
show  itself  in  many  sections.  The  General  Superintendent  has,  frqni  the 
beginning  of  his  labors,  found  the  Churches,  everywhere,  not  only  willing 
to  hear  of  the  plans  of  the  Sunday  School  Board,  but  they  have  everywhere 
equally  shown  a  willingness  themselves  to  enter  fully  upon  this  good  work, 
by  engaging  in  it  in  their  own  Churches  and  neighborhoods.  In  no  case 
does  he  remember  that  this  remark  will  not  hold  when  the  Sunday  School 
work  has  been  discussed  before  the  people.  Nor  does  he  believe  there  is  a 
Baptist  Church  in  the  State  of  South  Carolina  where  there  would  not  be  a 
Sunday  School  if  the  matter  were  fairly  presented.  In  no  single  case  has 
it  failed  so  far. 


EEPORTS.  103 

It  was  a  matter  of  concern  with  the  Board  and  Superintendent  to  devise 
the  most  successful  measures  for  reaching  the  greatest  number  of  Churches 
in  the  time  intervening  between  the  first  of  December  and  the  last  of  the 
present  month. 

The  Associations  had  all  held  their  annual  meetings.  Their  Churches 
could  not,  then,  be  influenced  through  this  source.  The  Southern  Baptist 
had  been  suspended,  and  there  was  no  medium  of  general  communication 
whatever.  Tbere  were  no  general  meetings  of  any  kind.  The  union  meet- 
ings all  occurring  at  the  same  time,  offered  little  or  no  aid.  In  this  state  of 
affairs,  the  Superintendent  for  the  State  entered  upon  his  work.  He  went 
immediately  into  the  District  of  Barnwell,  intending  to  visit  the  Churches 
as  he  went ;  for  this  purpose  he  purchased  a  horse  and  buggy,  and  passed 
through  portions  of  Barnwell  and  Beaufort,  but  found  that  but  a  very  small 
number  of  the  Churches  of  the  State  could  be  visited  in  this  way.  To  have 
visited  all  of  the  Churches  in  the  District  of  Barnwell  alone,  would  have 
taken  the  Superintendent  an  entire  year,  for  there  are  fifty  Churches  in  the 
District.  This  conviction  was  communicated  to  the  Board,  with  the  inten- 
tion, which  the  Superintendent  had  then  formed,  of  holding  District  Sun- 
day School  mass  meetings,  or  Sunday  School  celebrations,  one,  two  or  more, 
for  each  District,  as  the  necessity  of  the  Districts  might  require. 

The  object  of  these  District  meetings  was  to  gather  together,  at  one  place, 
all  of  the  Sunday  School  children  and  Sunday  School  friends  of  a  group  of 
Churches,  and  in  many  instances  the  object  was  most  satisfactorily  attained. 
In  a  number  of  these  meetings  as  many  as  ten  Sunday  Schools  have  been 
represented.  In  this  way  the  General  Superintendent  was  enabled  to  ac- 
complish in  one  day  as  much  as  he  could  have  done  in  so  many  weeks  had 
he  simply  visited  the  Churches  singly. 

These  mass  meetings  were  held  in  nearly  all  of  the  Districts  below  Co- 
lumbia, and  none  of  them  failed  to  be  of  the  most  interesting  character, 
when  the  proper  arrangements  could  be  made.  Through  the  influence  of 
these  meetings,  nearly  every  Church  in  the  lower  parts  of  the  State  has  been 
reached,  and  there  are  very  few  Churches  there  where  there  are  not  Sunday 
Schools.  These  meetings  were  held  in  the  Districts  of  Barnwell,  Beaufort, 
Orangeburg,  Clarendon,  Darlington,  Marlboro',  Marion,  and  Williams- 
burg, with  the  best  results,  and  in  the  Districts  of  Chesterfield,  Anderson, 
Abbeville,  Sumter,  Fairfield,  with  less  gratifying  results.  The  greatest 
difficulty  with  which  we  have  had  to  contend,  from  the  beginning  till  now, 
is  the  absence  of  a  denominational  organ,  through  which  appointments 
could  have  been  announced  in  every  neighborhood,  and  announced  so  as  to 
have  been  fully  understood.  This  embarrassment  has  been  sorely  felt.  A 
paper  would  have  helped  the  Superintendent  to  forward,  more  than  any 
other  one  agency,  the  work  contemplated  by  the  Sunday  School  Board. 
"Without  the  aid  of  a  paper,  an  immense  correspondence  has  been  continu- 
ally upon  the  hands  of  the  General  Superintendent,  and  with  all  the  writing 


104  REPORTS. 

he  could  do,  he  found  brethren  in  the  District  of ,  the  -5th  of  this  month, 

to  whom  he  had  to  be  introduced,  the  nature  of  his  -work  explained,  and 
the  people  told  he  was  a  true  man,  before  they  were  prepared  to  listen  to 
•  him  in  regard  to  his  mission.  Indeed,  he  found  many  excellent  and  well- 
informed  brethren,  to  whom  it  had  not  been  possible  for  him  to  write,  en- 
tirely without  information  in  regard  to  his  work.  Had  we  had  a  "paper," 
these  ministers  would  have  been  "co-workers  together  with  us,"  in  our 
efforts  to  bring  all  of  the  little  ones  to  the  knowledge  of  the  truth  as  it  is  in 
Jesus.  Another  cause  of  delay  in  the  prosecution  of  this  work,  resulted 
from  the  refusal  of  many  of  the  brethren,  who  were  appointed  District 
Superintendents,  to  act  in  that  capacity.  This  embarrassment  will  not 
operate  in  the  future,  for  the  General  Superintendent  has  found,  in  almost 
every  District  visited,  brethren  who  will  not  only  consent  to  do  the  work, 
but  those  who  will  joyfully  do  all  they  can  in  the  capacity  indicated,  in 
forwarding  the  objects  of  the  Board.  To  find  such  brethren  took  time,  but 
is  an  important  point  gained. 

The  difficulty,  and  now  the  almost  impossibility,  of  obtaining  Sunday 
School  books,  and  even  the  ISTew  Testament  itself,  has  embarrassed  many  of 
the  schools.  This  hindrance,  however,  is  likely  soon  to  be  removed,  if  not 
wholly,  at  least  so  far  as  the  Eew  Testament  is  concerned.  The  book  most 
needed,  perhaps,  is  the  little  "Sabbath  School  Bell."  This  little  book  has 
been  found  to  be  a  most  powerful  auxiliary,  wherever  it  has  been  introduced, 
in  exciting  an  interest  in  the  Sunday  School  cause,  not  among  the  children 
only,  but  among  the  members  of  our  Churches  themselves.  At  one  point, 
where  the  young  people  of  the  country  could  not  be  induced  to  attend  the 
Sunday  School  by  any  persuasion  or  argument,  as  soon  as  these  Sunday 
School  tunes  were  introduced  they  applied  to  the  Superintendent  for  per- 
mission to  attend.  If  the  expenses  can  be  met,  the  "Sabbath  School  Bell" 
ought  to  be  issued  immediately  by  our  Publication  Society.  Thousands  of 
copies  of  it  can  be  sold  in  a  single  year. 

The  influence  of  the  present  unhappy  state  of  the  country  upon  the  Sun- 
day School  cause  is  by  no  means  as  discouraging  as  supposed  by  some. 
Indeed,  it  has  not  materially  lessened  the  numbers  of  those  attending  the 
various  schools.  In  many  cases  whole  Bible  classes  have  gone,  as  in  the  case 
of  the  Bennettsville  Church.  In  other  instances  teachers  have  left;  here 
and  there  valuable  ones,  but  the  great  mass  of  the  teachers  remain.  The 
material  which  operated  mainly  in  the  Sunday  School  before  the  war,  namely, 
the  females  of  the  Churches,  are  still  as  actively  engaged  in  the  work  as  ever 
they  were.  While  nine-tenths,  if  no  larger  proportion,  of  the  material 
operated  upon,  the  children  and  young  people  of  the  country,  are  still,  also, 
at  their  homes,  and  can,  by  the  continued  efforts  of  the  friends  of  the  Sunday 
School  cause,  be  retained,  in  the  midst  of  all  our  troubles  as  a  nation,  in 
the  Sunday  School,  where  they  may  be  taught  how  they  may  bs  good  sol- 
diers of  Jesus  Christ.     But  one  Sunday  School  in  the  State  of  South  Caro- 


REPORTS.  105 

lina  has  suspended  its  operations  on  account  of  the  state  of  the  country,  ac- 
cording to  the  best  information  of  the  General  Superintendent,  while  it  is  a 
fact,  perhaps  indisputable,  that  there  are  in  South  Carolina  a  greater  num- 
ber of  Sunday  Schools  in  operation  in  Baptist  Churches  than  ever  before. 
Schools  have  been  organized  every  week  in  numbers  since  the  present 
troubles  began.  The  great  mass  of  the  Sunday  School  material  is  at  home, 
and  will  remain  there,  whether  we  have  war  or  peace.  The  indications  of 
the  times,  apart  from  any  considerations  of  duty  and  obligation,  encourage 
the  friends  of  the  children  to  renewed  and  continuous  efforts  in  their  behalf. 

The  Sunday  School  cause  needs  greatly  the  assistance  which  a  system  of 
colpoi'tage  would  afford.  The  District  Superintendents  have,  in  several  in- 
stances, rendered  very  efficient  aid  to  the  General  Superintendent,  where 
they  had  the  taste  and  the  time  to  perform  gratuitous  services.  Brother  H. 
C.  Smart,  of  Beaufort,  District  Superintendent  for  that  District,  has  done 
as  much  for  that  District,  perhaps,  as  any  colporteur  could  have  done  had  he 
been  every  day  in  the  work,  and  so  of  Brother  Mclver,  of  Darlington  Dis- 
trict. Brother  Coleman,  of  Marion  District,  Brother  Hughson,  of  Kershaw, 
Brother  Pringle,  of  Sumter,  Brother  Cuttino,  of  Clarendon,  Brother 
McMichael,  of  Orangeburg  Districts,  and  others,  have  all  given  much  of 
their  attention  and  time  to  the  work  in  their  respective  Districts,  and  the 
result  is  that  there  are  very  few  Churches  in  any  of  those  Districts  which 
are  without  their  Sunday  School  attached.  But  brethren  cannot  always, 
though  they  desire  it  ever  so  much,  give  the  time  gratuitously  as  District 
Superintendent.  This  is  true  of  nearly  all  the  Districts  in  the  upper  part 
of  the  State  visited  by  the  General  Superintendent.  A  colporteur  in  every 
District  would,  without  any  hindrance  of  time  from  the  no  less  important 
work  of  colportage,  be  able  to  visit  each  Church  in  every  District  at  least 
twice  in  the  course  of  each  year. 

There  is  no  colporteur  in  the  employ  of  the  Board,  and  but  few  in  the 
State.  Four  are  all  of  which  information  has  been  had.  The  General 
Superintendent  has  visited,  during  the  past  eight  months,  every  District  in 
the  State,  with  the  exception  of  seven.  The  attention  of  the  Board  was 
specially  drawn  to  the  Districts  of  Colleton,  Marion,  "Williamsburg  and 
York,  and  to  the  town  of  Yorkville.  Efficient  colporteurs  or  missionaries 
in  each  of  these  Districts  are  very  greatly  needed.  Your  State  Superintend- 
ent has  traveled,  since  the  first  December  last,  Jour  thousand  miles,  visit- 
ing every  accessible  point,  preaching,  lecturing,  talking  upon  the  subject 
of  his  mission  constantly,  wherever  the  people  could  be  congregated.  He 
had  printed  blank  forms  for  the  reports  of  the  Sunday  School  statistics,  five 
hundred  in  number,  and  sent  one  of  them  to  each  Church  in  the  State, 
when  the  name  and  post  office  of  the  Church  was  known.  And  when  not 
known,  a  number  of  blanks  were  sent  to  the  District  Superintendent  for 
each  District,  to  the  number  required.'  The  greater  number,  it  is  hoped,  of 
these  blanks   were   sent  by  the  District   Superintendents  to  the  various 


106 


REPORTS. 


Tl 


Churches.  The  General  Superintendent,  however,  regrets  to  state,  that, 
after  mailing  these  blanks,  he  found  a  number  of  them  afterwards  in  the 
hands  of  those  to  whom  mailed,  undistributed.  This  will  be  obviated  in 
the  future,  by  sending  the  blanks  directly  to  the  Churches  themselves, 
"Wherever  this  has  been  done,  the  Churches,  for  the  most  part,  have  filled 
them  out  and  returned  them.  The  number  of  Sunday  Schools  known  to  be 
in  operation  is  much  larger  than  the  number  which  have  made  a  report  of 
the  past  year.  Many  of  them,  it  is  understood  by  private  letters,  have 
been  waiting  till  the  last  hour,  so  as  to  be  able  to  make  the  largest  possible 
report,  but  have  detained  their  reports  too  long.  These  reports  were  com- 
ing in  rapidly  up  to  the  time  of  leaving  for  the  Convention. 

It  will  be  seen  by  the  statistical  table,  herewith  submitted,  that  the  whole 
number  heard  from  so  far  is  163,  with  1,360  teachers  and  7,119  scholars. 
The  whole  number  of  books  in  the  schools  is  22,722  volumes.  There  have 
been  225  conversions  reported,  and  $615  90  contributed  for  benevolent 
purposes.  It  has  been  found  very  difficult  to  obtain  the  statistical  reports 
from  the  Churches  in  regard  to  their  colored  schools,  as  will  be  seen  by 
noticing  the  very  small  number  returned.  A  number  of  Churches  are 
known  to  have  colored  Sunday  Schools,  which  made  no  report  of  them, 
although  there  was  a  report  of  white  schools.  This  is  true  of  Charleston 
and  other  Churches.  The  Superintendent  regrets  to  state,  however,  that 
the  present  troubles  of  the  country  have  afflicted  very  seriously  the  Sunday 
School  work  among  this  class  of  the  population.  There  is,  in  a  number  of 
localities,  exceeding  tenderness  on  the  whole  question  of  the  instruction  of 
the  colored  people.  Some  Churches  have  abandoned  the  work  among  them, 
even  where  there  was  an  encouraging  prospect  of  accomplishing  great 
good.  The  number  of  Churches  which  at  any  time  were  engaged  in  teach- 
ing the  negroes  makes  a  lamentably  small  proportion  of  the  whole.  Is 
there  any  reason  why  this  good  work,  promising  so  much  real  knowledge 
and  spirituality  among  this  class  of  our  poor,  should  so  soon  be  abandoned? 
These  fields  are  white  unto  the  harvest,  but  the  laborers  are  few. 

Your  superintendent  would  call  the  attention  of  the  Churches  generally 
to  the  work  of  Mission  Schools,  in  which  only  a  few  Churches  of  the  State 
are  engaged.  Brother  Elford,  of  Greenville,  and  his  Sunday  Schools  there, 
are  occupying  all  the  ground  in  the  vicinity  of  the  town  of  Greenville, 
gathering  together  as  many  as  four  of  these  Mission  Schools.  Atone  point 
near  Greenville,  if  no  more,  a  School  has  been  organized  by  Brother  El- 
ford in  a  neighborhood  where  the  people  were  without  any  means  of  grace, 
and  where,  when  the  effort  was  about  being  made,  many  of  those  who  knew 
the  community  thought  that  such  an  attempt  would  result  in  a  failure  only. 
And  yet  a  School  was  organized  there  with  sixty-four  scholars,  and,  what 
is  remarkable,  the  average  attendance  is  sixty-one. 

Brother  J.  0.  Evans,  of  Cheraw,  too,  is  engaged,  and  has  been  for  a  length 
of  time,  in  gathering  up  the  poor  children  and  breaking  to  them,  every 


EEPORTS.  107 

Lord's  day,  the  bread  of  life.  Brother  Evans  has  a  Mission  School  seven 
miles  from  Cheraw,  numbering  seventy-nine  scholars.  The  young  breth- 
ren, too,  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Theological  Seminary  and  the  Eurman 
University,  are  doing  good  service  in  the  direction  above  indicated.  May 
not  the  influence  of  these  young  men  be  more  widely  felt  during  the  months 
of  their  vacation  ? 

It  will  be  gratifying  to  notice,  by  the  statistical  report,  that  a  number  of 
strictly  country  Churches  are  keeping  their  Schools  together  during  the  en- 
tire year.  The  custom  of  our  Churches  has  been,  almost  universally,  to  sus- 
pend operations  during  the  entire  winter,  and  a  large  portion  of  the  spring — 
the  result  of  being  disorganized.  The  habit  is  most  destructive  of  all  Sun- 
day School  interest,  and  in  not  a  few  instances,  of  the  Sunday  School  itself. 
Tour  Superintendent  has  opposed  this  thing  wherever  he  has  gone,  and  is 
gratified  to  be  able  to  state  that  there  is  a  disposition  to  abandon  it. 

In  concluding  this  report,  the  Superintendent  desires  to  express  to  his 
brethren  of  the  Board,  and  everywhere,  his  high  appreciation  of  the  kind- 
ness with  which  he  has  been  received  and  aided.  He  would  also  record  the 
goodness  of  God,  with-  gratitude  to  Him,  that  He  has  permitted  him  to 
share  an  humble  part  in  the  endeavor  to  urge  the  blessed  work  of  preach- 
ing the  Gospel  to  our  thirty  thousand  children. 
Respectfully  submitted, 

W.  D.  RICE,  Gen.  Sup.  S.  S.  in  S.  C. 

July  26,  1861. 


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3. — C.  H.   JUDSON,    Treasurer,  in  account  with  the  State 


I860.  Dr. 

July  29 — To  balance  in  hand,  last  report $23  11 

Collected  for  Dr.  H.  "W.   Pasley 40  75 $63  86 

Public  Sabbath  Collections 92  31 

Female  Missionary  and  Education  Society, 
First    Baptist    Church,    Charleston,    for 

Creek  Mission 50  00 

Salem  Church,  for  minutes 2  50 

Bethany  Church,  for  minutes 1  00 

Beedy  Biver  Association,  for  minutes 10  00 

Edisto  Association,,  for  minutes 5  00 

"Welsh  jSTeck  Association,  for  minutes 20  00 

Edgefield  Association,  for  minutes 12  15 

Columbia  Association,  for  minutes 5  00 

Newberry  Church,  for  minutes 3  00 

Barnwell  Church,  for  minutes 5  00 

Salem  Association,  for  minutes.... 11  50 

Tyger  Biver  Association,  for  minutes 10  20 

W.  Phillips,  for  minutes 50 

Young  Men's  Miss'ry  Soc'y,  for  minutes....     2  00 88  15 

Aug.  17 —      Young  Men's  Miss'ry  Soc'y,  Furman  Uni- 
versity, for  Foreign  Missions 50  00 

Oct.  12 —        Geo.  Bhodes,  Treas'r  S.  Biver  Association, 

for  Convention  fund 202  02 

Foreign  Missions 357  77 

Convention  minutes 13  80 

Foreign  Bible  distribution 125  91 

China  Mission 25  00 

African  Mission 5  33 

Library  Furman  University 7  35 

Publication  Society... 42  50 

Japan  Mission „....    23  00 802  68 

Dec.  21 —       Young  Men's  Miss'y  Soc'y,  Furman  Uni- 
versity, for  Domestic  Missions 10  00 

1861. 

Aprl  15 —       Geo.  Bhodes,  Treasurer  S.   B.   Association, 

for  Convention  fund 205  94 

Foreign  Missions 526  88 

Domestic  Missions 406  13 

Indian  Missions 28  73 

China  Missions 22  35 

African  Missions 30  18 

Buckner's  Translation 6  50 

Education  Board 16  00 

Foreign  Bible  distribution 216  00 

Convention  minutes 17  08 — $1,475  79 

Tyger  Biver  Association,  for  Foreign  Bible 

distribution 1  50 

$2,634  29 


REPORTS.  113 

Convention  of  the  Baptist  Denomination  in  South    Carolina. 


I860.  Cb. 

Aug.  1— By  paid  W.  H.  Mcintosh,  for  Creek  Mission...  $50  00 

Domestic  and  Indian  Missions 30-77 $80  77 

Dr.  J.  J.  Brantley,  for  minutes 74  00 

Aug.  9 —  G-eo.  F.  Townes,  for  Education 30  77 

T.  B.  Boberts,  for  Dr.  H.  W.  Pasley..  63  86 

Oct.  17—  Dr.  J.  J.  Brantly,  for  minutes 21  00 

Edwin  Wortham,  Treasurer, 

for  Foreign  Missions 434  85 

China  Missions 25  00 

African  Missions 5  33 

Japan  Missions 23  00 

Exchange  on  New  York 3  69 491  87 

Nov.  8—               Dr.  J.  P.  Boyce,  Treas.  S.  B.  Theologi- 
cal Seminary 202  02 

1861. 

April—                   Dr.  J.  P.  Boyce,   Treas'r  S.  B.  Theo- 
logical Seminary 205  94 

May  11—  S.  A.  Creath,  for  Foreign  Missions....  526  88 

for  China  Missions 22  35 

for  African  Missions 30  18 579  41 

B.  Holman,  for  Domestic  Missions 416  13 

for  Indian  Missions 28  73 

for  Buckner's  Translations 6  50 451  36 

L.  W.  Allen,  Bible  distribution 343  41 

G-.  F.  Townes,  for  Education 16  00 

C.  H.  Judson,  Treas.  Furman  Univ'ty  7  35 
July —                   J.  J.  Toon,  Treas.  Publication  Society                        42  50 

Balance  in  hand  for  minutes 24  03 


2,634  29 


C.  H.  JUDSON,  Treasurer. 


114  REPORTS. 


4. REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  THE  REPORT  OF  BOARD  OF  SUNDAY 

SCHOOLS  AND  COLPORTAGE. 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  report  of  the  Board  of  Sunday 
Schools  and  Colportage,  respectfully  beg  leave  to  report :  That,  notwith- 
standing the  many  hindrances  to  which  the  Board  and  their  General  Su- 
perintendent allude  in  their  reports,  we  have  abundant  cause  for  thankful- 
ness, for  the  success  which  has  crowned  their  efforts,  and  we  feel  convinced 
that  the  plans  which  they  have  adopted  are  well  calculated  to  promote  the 
objects  which  they  have  in  charge,  and  should  be  continued. 

Your  Committee  entertain  no  doubt  as  to  the  propriety  of  continuing  the 
operations  of  the  General  Superintendent,  and  feel  that  the  discontinuance, 
or  even  suspension,  of  this  agency,  would  be  disastrous  to  our  hopes  for  the 
future,  and  would  greatly  diminish  the  value  and  efficiency  of  much  that 
has  been  done  in  the  past.  They  think  there  is  no  difficulty  in  relation  to 
the  support  of  the  General  Superintendent,  at  least  for  the  coming  four 
months,  which  is  the  period  most  favorable  for  operation  in  the  upper  Dis- 
tricts, where  as  yet  but  little  work  has  been  done.  The  Board  have  in  their 
hands  reliable  pledges  for  the  salary  of  the  Superintendent  for  one  year, 
and  as  yet  but  eight  months  of  this  time  have  been  occupied.  This  leaves 
a  balance  sufficient  to  provide  for  the  coming  four  months.  The  Commit- 
mittee  hope  and  believe  that  the  present  Superintendent  will  be  induced  to 
rely  upon  these  pledges  for  the  payment  of  his  salary,  and  thus  relieve  the 
Board  and  Convention  from  any  liability  for  what  labor  may  be  performed 
until  the  first  of  December  next.  From  the  liberality  and  interest  which 
is  evinced  by  our  brethren  in  this  enterprise,  your  Committee  have  little 
doubt  that  during  these  four  months  provision  can  be  made,  by  pledges 
and  contributions,  for  the  support  of  a  Superintendent  for  another  year. 

Your  Committee  would,  therefore,  recommend  that  the  Board  be  advised 
to  continue  the  General  Superintendency  for  the  coming  four  months,  at 
all  events,  and  then  for  so  much  longer  as  they  can  make  provision  for  his 
salary,  and  that  the  Associations,  Churches,  Sunday  Schools,  and  individual 
brethren  throughout  the  State,  be  earnestly  and  affectionately  invited  to 
contribute  to  the  support  of  this  good  and  important  cause. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

C.  J.  ELEOED,  for  Committee. 


REPORTS.  115 

5. REPORT    OF    THE    COMMITTEE    ON    THE    NOMINATION    OE    THE 

BOARDS  OF  THE  CONVENTION. 

The  Committee  make  the  following  report : 

BOABDS  OF  THE  CONVENTION. 

EDUCATION   BOARD,    LOCATED    AT   GREENVILLE. 

President — Eev.  J.  C.  Furman,  D.  D. 
Secretary — Prof.  C.  H.  Judson. 
Treasurer — G.  F.  Townes. 

Managers — Kev.  P.  C.  Edwards,  Eev.  J.  P.  Boyce,  D.  D.,  Eev.  E.  Fur- 
man,  D.  D.,  Eev.  B.  Manly,  Jr.,  D.  D. 

BIBLE   AND   MISSION   BOARD,    LOCATED   AT    NEWBERRY. 

President — Hon.  J.  B.  O'Neall. 

Secretary — Eev.  J.  J.  Brantly. 

Treasurer — John  B.  Carwile. 

Managers— W.  H.  Harrington,  G.  T.  Scott,  B.  F.  Griffin,  John  E.  Gary. 

SUNDAY   SCHOOL   AND   COLPORTAGE   BOARD,    LOCATED   AT   DARLINGTON. 

President — T.  P.  Lide. 
Secretary — Eev.  J.  O.  B.  Dargan. 
Treasurer — Dr.  S.  H.  Pressley. 

Managers—?.  D.  Eice,  A.  E.  Mclver,  Eev.  G.  B.   Bealer,  Eev.  J.   W. 
Burn. 


t>. — REPORT  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  TO  NOMINATE  A  BOARD  OF 

AGENTS. 

The  Committee  recommend  the  same  persons  to  constitute  the  Board  of 
Agents,  as  last  year,  viz :  Eev.  Dr.  Johnson,  Eev.  J.  E.  Kendrick,  Eev.  J. 
O.  B.  Dargan,  Eev.  E.  Furman,  B.  C.  Pressley,  and  the  officers  of  the 
Convention. 

11 


116  REPORTS. 


7. REPORT  OF  THE  EDUCATION  BOARD. 

[The  reports  of  the  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  this  Board,  which  were 
to  he  completed  and  forwarded  to  me,  have  not  heen  received  at  the  time 
of  the  publication  of  these  Minutes. — J.  M.  C.  B.     Sept.  3.] 


8. — REPORT    OF    THE    COMMITTEE    ON   NOTICE    OF    DECEASED 
MINISTERS. 

Bev.  Thomas  Frean,  of  the  Charleston  Association,  on  the  7th  of  April 
last,  in  the  69th  year  of  his  age,  was  called  home  tc  his  everlasting  rest. 

He  was  a  native  of  Tipperary,  Ireland.  He  migrated  to  this  county  he- 
fore  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age.  He  was  educated  for  a  merchant,  and 
pursued  that  business  for  a  brief  period  in  Charleston.  In  the  war  of  1812, 
he,  with  other  foreigners,  was  ordered  into  the  interior.  He  came  to  New- 
berry, where  he  subsequently  married  Hannah  Elmore.  He  returned  to 
Charleston,  and  entered  on  the  mercantile  business,  which  he  pursued  for  a 
short  time.  He  then  removed  to  Newberry,  and  pursued  the  same  business 
unsuccessfully  for  a  short  time.  He  became  afterwards  a  teacher,  and  sub- 
sequently removed  with  his  father-in-law  to  Spartanburg,  where  he  pursued 
the  business  of  a  teacher.  He  returned  to  Newberry,  and  fortunately  was 
led  to  Christ,  and  became  a  teacher  of  the  Word.  For  years  he  was  a  local 
preacher  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  After  some  time  he  became 
convinced  that  the  Baptists  were  right,  and  joined  the  Newberry  Baptist 
Church.  He  was  ordained,  and  became  the  Pastor.  He  was,  after  some 
time,  elected  Surveyor  General,  and  removed  to  Columbia.  He  became  a 
member  of  the  Columbia  Baptist  Church,  and  occasionally  preached  to 
them.  At  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office  he  became  the  Deputy  Treas- 
urer, and  for  ten  years  most  faithfully  and  intelligently  performed  the 
duties  of  that  office.  In  a  few  years  he  saw  his  entire  family,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  one  daughter — his  son,  his  wife,  and  two  daughters — go  down  to 
the  grave.  On  the  7th  of  April  last  he  followed  them,  dying  at  the  house 
of  his  son-in-law,  in  Newberry. 

Elder  M.  Mtjllinax  was  born  in  York  District,  S.  C,  and  died  in 

,  1861,  aged  forty  years.     He  was  converted,  baptized,  and  added  first 

to  the  Antioch  Baptist  Church,  in  his  native  District.  He  afterwards 
removed  his  membership  to  the  Union  Baptist  Church,  in  the  same  Dis- 
trict, where  he  was  ordained  a  minister  of  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ, 
which  he  continued  to  preach  faithfully  till  he  was  called  to  his  reward. 


REPORTS.  117 

He  was  a  godly  man,  and  served  his  Master  with  much  zeal  and  self- 
denial.  Though  not  strictly  an  "ahle  minister  of  the  New  Testament," 
yet  he  was  acceptab1e  to  those  with  whom  he  labored,  and  his  labors  were 
much  blessed.     He  has  left  a  wife  and  two  children  to  mourn  his  loss. 

JOHN  G.  LANDBUM,  Chairman. 

[A  notice  of  the  late  Kev.  I.  E.  H.  Seymour,  of  Union  C.  H,  was  to 
have  been  included  in  this  report. — Secretary.] 


CONSTITUTION, 
REVISED  AND  AMENDED. 


"We,  the  representatives  of  the  constituent  bodies  of  the 
State  Convention  of  the  Baptist  Denomination  in  South 
Carolina,  do  agree  upon  the  following  Articles,  as  forming 
the  annexed  Constitution  of  the  Convention,  and  the  basis 
of  the  union : 

ARTICLE   I. 

This  body  shall  be  styled  the  State  Convention  of  the 
Baptist  Denomination  in  South  Carolina. 

ARTICLE  II. 

The  grand  objects  of  this  Convention  shall  be:  The  pro- 
motion of  religious  education,  and  particularly  that  of  pious 
young  men  designed  for  the  Gospel  ministry ;  the  spread 
of  the  Gospel  by  Foreign,  Domestic,  and  State  Missionary 
operations ;  by  the  circulation  of  the  Sacred  Scriptures ; 
and  by  such  means  as  may  be  devised  from  time  to  time, 
for  the  promotion  of  the  interests  of  Education,  Publica- 
tion, and  the  Sunday  School  system — to  bring  the  Baptist 
Churches  in  this  State  into  closer  union — to  harmonize 
their  views  and  feelings  in  things  spiritual,  by  conferring 
together  on  all  matters  of  interest  respecting  the  kingdom 
of  God — and  in  general  to  direct  and  concentrate  their 
efforts  in  such  measures  as  may,  in  their  opinion,  tend  to 
promote  the  glory  of  God  and  the  spread  of  evangelical 
knowledge  in  the  earth.  The  Convention,  though  not  un- 
willing to  give  advice  in  cases  of  difficulty,  yet  will  claim 


CONSTITUTION.  119 

to  itself  no  power  to  lord  it  over  God's  heritage,  believing 
that  the  right  of  government,  under  Christ,  is  vested  in 
the  Churches  themselves. 

ARTICLE    in. 

The  Convention  shall  consist  of  Delegates  from  the  sev- 
eral Baptist  Associations  in  this  State  who  may  approve  of 
the  measures  here  adopted ;  and  of  Representatives  from 
other  religious  bodies  of  the  Baptist  connection,  concerned 
in  the  promotion  of  the  same  objects  with  the  Convention; 
the  number  of  Delegates  and  Representatives  bearing  al- 
ways a  just  proportion  to  the  number  of  their  constituents. 
The  attending  delegates  shall  be  a  quorum  to  do  business. 
The  appointment  of  these  Delegates  shall  be  made  annu- 
ally or  biennially,  as  the  Convention  shall  determine  to 
hold  its  meeting ;  and  a  certificate  of  their  appointment 
shall  be  exhibited  to  the  Convention.  The  members  of 
the  Board  of  Agents  shall  be  ex-officio  members  of  the  new 
Convention. 

ARTICLE   IV. 

The  Convention  shall  have  a  President,  Vice  President, 
Secretary,  and  Treasurer.  It  shall  also  have  a  Board  of 
Agents  for  the  transaction  of  business  during  its  recess, 
consisting  of  eight  members — the  Treasurer  ex-officio  being 
one  of  them — any  three  of  whom,  duly  convened,  shall  be 
a  quorum.  The  duties  severally  assigned  to  the  officers  of 
similar  institutions  shall  devolve  on  those  of  this  body,  ac- 
cording to  their  rank  and  character  in  the  Convention  and 
in  the  Board.  The  Board,  as  Agents,  shall  be  adequate  to 
the  performance  of  all  necessary  business  which  may  occur 
during  the  recess  of  the  Convention.  Both  officers  and 
Agents  shall  hold  their  station — unless  forfeited  by  un- 
righteous conduct — till  a  new  election.  The  Board  shall 
have  the  power  to  fill  vacancies  in  their  own  body. 


120  CONSTITUTION. 


ARTICLE  V. 

The  support  of  an  institution  of  learning  in  this  State 
shall  be  considered  as  a  primary  object.  One  of  the  de- 
signs of  this  Institution  is  to  assist  those  who,  in  the  judg- 
ment of  their  Churches,  are  called  to  preach  the  Gospel, 
that  they  may  "  study  to  show  themselves  workmen  ap- 
proved unto  God,  that  need  not  be  ashamed,  rightly  divid- 
ing the  word  of  truth."  Those  of  this  character  who  need 
pecuniary  aid,  may  receive  it,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Con- 
vention, from  funds  appropriated  to  this  object.  The  gov- 
ernment of  this  Institution  shall  be  committed  to  a  Board 
of  Trustees,  to  be  elected  by  the  Convention  at  the  end  of 
every  fourth  year. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

Ministers  of  the  Gospel  in  any  of  our  Churches  needing 
aid  in  the  more  necessary  part  of  learning,  and  unable  to 
attend  at  the  Institution,  may  be  furnished  with  a  supply 
of  the  most  useful  books,  from  the  general  fund  for  educa- 
tion purposes. 

ARTICLE  Vn. 

Although  contributions  in  money  shall  not  be  considered 
requisite  to  entitle  to  a  representation  in  the  Convention, 
yet  this  body  will  receive  such  contributions  from  any  of  its 
constituent  bodies  that  may  wish  to  aid  in  the  support  of 
missionary  service  among  the  destitute,  either  at  home  or 
abroad-;  of  the  education  of  pious  young  men  who  may  be 
approved  by  the  Churches  to  which  they  belong,  as  called 
of  God  to  preach  the  Gospel ;  or  any  other  scheme  of  be- 
nevolence tending  to  the  increase  of  evangelical  and  useful 
knowledge,  or  of  vital,  practical  religion.  And  the  right 
of  conducting  the  business  of  the  fund  will  be  considered 
as  vested  exclusively  in  the  representative  of  bodies  which 
do  regularly  contribute.     In  the  election  of  the  Board  of 


CONSTITUTION.  121 

Trustees  of  Furman  University,  the  vote  shall  be  cast  only 
by  the  representatives  of  the  larger  bodies,  viz :  Associa- 
tions— which  enter  into  the  constituency  of  the  Convention. 
The  extent  of  this  right  on  the  part  of  each  Association, 
shall  be  measured  by  the  amount  it  may  have  contributed 
to  the  vested  funds  of  the  Convention,  whether  this  con- 
tribution shall  have  been  made  directly  by  the  donation  of 
Churches  or  of  individuals  within  its  limits ;  and  the  con- 
tribution of  each  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars  shall  give  the 
contributing  body  the  right  to  cast  one  vote.  All  moneys 
specially  appropriated  shall  be  sacredly  applied  to  the  ob- 
ject designated;  but  where  any  contributions  or  bequests 
are  made  without  any  specific  designation,  discretion  in 
their  application  shall  be  exercised  by  the  Convention  or 
its  Board  of  Agents. 

ARTICLE  Vm. 

The  Treasurer  shall  take  charge  of  all  moneys  and 
specialties  belonging  to  the  Convention,  and  keep  separate 
accounts  of  the  amounts  contributed  for  different  objects, 
and  render  regular  accounts  of  them  to  the  Convention  at 
its  stated  meetings,  and,  also,  to  the  Board,  when  called 
upon  to  do  so.  He  shall  be  elected  by  the  Convention  at 
its  stated  meeting,  and  shall  hold  his  office  until  the  last 
day  of  the  next  meeting,  and  until  another  shall  be  elected 
and  give  bond,  and  enter  upon  the  duties  of  his  office.  For 
the  faithful  discharge  of  his  trust  he  shall  give  bond  and 
security  to  the  Convention,  in  such  sum  of  money  as  they 
_shall  from  time  to  time  direct.  He  shall  pay  no  money  out 
of  the  funds  but  by  order  of  the  Convention  or  Board, 
signed  by  the  presiding  officer.  And  should  the  said  office 
become  vacant  by  death,  resignation,  or  removal,  the  said 
vacancy  shall  be  filled  by  an  election  by  the  Board  of 
Agents,  and  the  person  so  elected  by  the  Board  shall  hold 
his  office  until  the  next  stated  meeting  of  the  Convention, 
and  until  another  shall  be  elected,  give  bond  and  security, 


122  CONSTITUTION. 

and  enter  upon  the  duties  of  his  office.  And  the  Treasurer 
so  elected  shall  give  bond,  and  do  all  the  duties  required, 
and  in  the  same  manner,  as  if  elected  by  the  Convention. 

ARTICLE  IX. 

The  Convention  may  use  its  discretion  in  having  either 
an  annual  or  biennial  meeting.  But  in  cases  of  important 
concern,  and  especially  when  the  arrangement  for  a  bien- 
nial session  has  been  made,  the  President  may,  at  the 
instance  of  the  Board,  call  an  earlier  meeting. 

ARTICLE  X. 

Any  alteration  which  experience  may  prove  to  be  neces- 
sary, may  be  made  in  these  Rules,  by  the  concurring  vote 
of  two-thirds  of  the  members  present  at  an  annual  or  bien- 
nial meeting. 


RULES  FOR  THE   TRANSACTION  OF  BUSINESS. 


1.  The  meeting  of  the  Convention  shall  be  opened  and 
closed,  each  day  of  its  session,  with  prayer  by  the  Presi- 
dent, or  by  some  person  whoin  he  shall  request  to  perform 
the  services. 

2.  After  prayer  on  the  first  day  the  names  of  Delegates 
shall  be  enrolled,  officers  shall  be  elected,  and  when  the 
body  is  organized,  applications  for  membership  from  new 
bodies  be  decided  on,  and  if  admitted,  their  attending  Del- 
egates shall  be  received  by  the  right  hand  of  fellowship. 
The  Constitution  of  the  Convention  and  the  Rules  of  Order 
shall  then  be  read. 

3.  The  Minutes  of  the  preceding  day  shall  be  read,  to 
the  end  that  mistakes,  if  any  shall  have  been  made,  may 
be  corrected. 

4.  Persons  invited  to  seats  in  Convention  shall  have  the 
privilege  of  speaking  in  debate,  but  not  of  voting. 

5.  The  members  of  Convention  shall  retain  their  seats, 
preserve  silence,  and  refrain  from  conversation  during  the 
reading  of  the  Minutes,  while  the  presiding  officer  is  put- 
ting a  question,  or  when  any  member  is  speaking  in 
debate. 

6.  No  member  shall  absent  himself  from  the  meeting  of 
Convention  without  permission. 

7.  Each  member,  when  he  speaks  in  debate,  or  has  any 
communication  to  make  to  the  Convention,  shall  address 
the  Chair,  standing  in  his  place,  and  when  he  has  finished 
he  shall  sit  down. 

12 


124  RULES. 

8.  ISTo  member  shall  speak  oftener  than  twice  in  any  one 
debate  on  the  same  day,  without  permission  from  the  Con- 
vention. 

9.  When  two  or  more  members  rise  nearly  at  the  same 
time,  to  address  the  Convention,  the  President  shall  name 
the  one  to  speak,  being  the  one  who  had  first  risen  and 
addressed  the  Chair.  After  he  shall  have  spoken,  those 
who  had  risen  with  him  shall  be  heard  in  the  order  of  their 
rising,  in  priority  of  all  others,  should  they  still  desire  to 
be  heard. 

10.  "When  a  member  shall  be  called  to  order,  he  shall  sit 
down  until  the  Chair  determines  whether  he  is  in  order  or 
not.  An  appeal,  however,  may  be  made  from  the  decision 
of  the  Chair  to  the  Convention. 

11.  No  motion  shall  be  debated,  nor  the  question  upon 
it  be  put,  unless  it  shall  have  been  seconded ;  and  then,  if 
required  by  the  President  or  "any  member,  it  shall  be  re- 
duced to  writing,  delivered  in  at  the  table,  and  read  before 
the  debate  begins. 

12.  When  a  question  is  under  debate,  no  motion  shall 
be  received,  except  to  adjourn,  to  lay  on  the  table,  to  post- 
pone indefinitely,  to  postpone  to  a  day  certain,  to  commit, 
or  to  amend ;  which  several  motions  shall  have  precedence 
in  the  order  in  which  they  stand  there  arranged.  ISTeither 
of  these  motions,  with  the  exception  of  that  to  adjourn, 
after  being  decided,  shall  be  allowed  again  on  the  same  day 
upon  the  same  question. 

13.  A  motion  to  adjourn  shall  always  be  in  order,  except 
when  a  question  is  actually  put,  and  the  Convention  is 
engaged  in  voting. 

14.  If  the  question  for  debate  contain  several  points,  it 
may  be  divided  at  the  request  of  any  member. 

15.  In  filling  up  blanks,  the  largest  sum  and  the  longest 
time  shall  be  first  put. 


RULES.  125 

16.  When  the  question  has  been  once  made,  and  the  vote 
taken,  it  shall  be  in  order  for  any  member  in  the  majority 
to  move  for  its  reconsideration. 

17.  All  questions  shall  be  put  by  the  President,  and  the 
members  shall  respectively  signify  their  assent  by  answer- 
ing "Aye,"  and  their  dissent  by  answering  "No."  If  the 
President,  or  any  member,  shall  not  be  satisfied  that  the 
decision  expressed  by  the  ayes  and  noes  is  certainly  ascer- 
tained, the  President  shall  request  those  who  voted  in  the 
affirmative  to  rise  and  stand  until  they  shall  be  counted. 
After  these  shall  be  seated,  the  President  shall  request 
those  who  voted  in  the  negative  to  rise  and  stand  till  they 
shall  be  counted.  In  the  event  of  an  equal  division,  the 
President  shall  have  the  casting  vote. 

18.  "When  the  President  shall  desire  to  be  heard  in  de- 
bate, or  to  be  temporarily  absent,  the  Chair  shall  be  taken 
by  the  Yice  President ;  or,  in  case  of  his  absence,  by  some 
member  named  by  the  President,  until  he  shall  resume  his 
seat. 

19.  The  following  Standing  Committees,  to  consist  of 
five  members  each,  shall  be  appointed  by  the  President  at 
the  commencement  of  each  session,  viz : 

A  Committee  to  arrange  the  Preaching  during  the  meeting. 

A  Committee  on  Accounts. 

A  Committee  on  the  Minutes  and  Letters  of  Corresponding 

Bodies. 
A  Committee  on'the  Time  and  Place  of  next  Meeting,  and 

the  Persons  who  shall  Preach  the  stated  Sermons  of  the 

Convention's  appointment. 
A  Committee  on  the  notice  of  Deceased  Ministers. 
A  Committee  to  prepare  a  List  of  the  Names  of  Baptist 

Ministers  in  South  Carolina,  and  their  Post  Offices. 
A  Committee  on  Nomination  of  a  Board  of  Agents. 

20.  The  following  shall  be  the  order  for  the  Reports  of 
the  several  Boards  of  the  Convention,  viz :    The  report  of 


126  RULES. 

the  "Bible  and  Mission  Board"  shall  he  made  the  special 
order  for  10J  o'clock,  A.  M.,  on  the  second  day  of  the  ses- 
sion of  the  Convention,  to  he  followed  by  addresses  in  its 
favor;  that  of  the  "  Sunday  School  and  Colportage  Board," 
for  41,  P.  M.,  of  the  same  day  ;  and  that  of  the  "  Educa- 
tion Board,"  for  10 J,  A.  M.,  of  the  third  day  of  the  ses- 
sion of  the  Convention — each  of  these  two  last-mentioned 
Boards  having  equal  privileges  of  addresses  with  the  for- 
mer. The  Convention  may,  however,  with  the  consent  of 
the  respective  Boards,  alter  these  appointments. 


ABSTEACT    OF   MINUTES 


BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES  OF  FURMAN  UNIVERSITY, 


Spartanburg,  July  27,  1861. 

The  Board  met,  the  following  members  being  present : 
J.  C.  Furman,  J.  B.  O'Eeall,  Z.  Watkins,  H.  A.  Duncan, 
J.  P.  Boyce,  I.  ISTicholes,  J.  G.  Landrum,  J.  0.  B.  Dargan, 
and  R.  Furman.     Prayer  by  Brother  Boyce. 

The  resignation  of  Rev.  J.  M.  Chiles,  as  a  member  of 
the  Board,  was  accepted,  and  the  Rev.  L.  R.  Gwaltney,  of 
Edgefield,  elected  to  supply  his  place. 

Brother  Boyce  tendered  his  resignation  as  a  member  of 
the  Board,  which  was  accepted. 

The  Faculty  of  the  University  submitted  their  report. 
It  was  referred  to  the  following  Committee :  Landrum, 
Duncan,  and  Dargan. 

The  Agent  of  the  Board,  Brother  Duncan,  submitted  his 
report,  and  the  following  brethren  were  appointed  a  Com- 
mittee, to  whom  the  report  was  referred,  viz :  Watkins 
and  Dargan. 

The  Treasurer's  report  was  presented,  and  referred  to 
the  following  Committee,  viz :  O'Keall,  "Watkins,  and 
Landrum. 

Adjourned,  to  meet  at  the  call  of  the  President. 


128  ABSTRACT    OF   MINUTES. 


Saturday  Evening. 

On  Saturday  evening,  at  the  call  of  the  President,  the 
Board  met. 

Elected  Brother  ¥m.  Curtis  a  member  of  the  Board,  to 
supply  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the  resignation  of  Brother 
Boyce. 

Elected  Brother  H.  A.  Duncan  Second  Vice  President, 
in  the  place  of  Brother.  Chiles,  resigned. 

The  Committee  on  the  Treasurer's  report  reported  that 
they  found  the  statement  of  receipts  and  expenditures  cor- 
rect. They  recommended  that,  to  meet  the  crisis  of  the 
affairs  of  the  country,  and  the  necessities  of  the  University, 
the  principal,  when  paid  in,  be  used  as  a  loan.  They  fur- 
ther recommended  that  a  reduction  be  permitted,  as  sug- 
gested by  the  Treasurer,  in  the  case  of  such  students  as 
may  have  paid  in  advance,  but  been  away  in  the  service  of 
the  country,  on  entering  another  term.  The  report  was 
concurred  in. 

The  Committee  on  the  report  of  the  Agent  reported, 
whereupon  the  following  resolutions  were  passed : 

Resolved,  That  the  Board  approve  of  the  suspension  of  Brother  Duncan's 
agency  during  the  winter;  and  that  his  salary  be  reduced,  as  he  suggests, 
in  proportion  to  the  time  of  suspension. 

Resolved,  That,  in  the  existing  circumstances  of  the  country,  the  Board 
deem  it  inexpedient  to  continue  the  agency  for  the  present;  but  should 
Brother  Duncan  think  circumstances  favorable  to  his  prosecuting  the 
agency  hereafter,  the  Board  will  cordially  approve  of  his  doing  so. 

The  Committee  on  the  Faculty's  report  reported,  recom- 
mending that  degrees  be  conferred  on  the  young  men  of 
the  graduating  class,  as  suggested  by  the  Faculty.  They 
also  recommended  that  the  resignation  of  Prof.  Lanneau, 
which  had  been  tendered,  should  not  be  accepted ;  and 
that,  if  necessary,  temporary  provision  be  made  by  the 


ABSTRACT   OP   MINUTES.  129 

Faculty  to  supply  his  Chair  during  his  continuance  in  the 
army.     The  report  was  concurred  in. 

Adjourned,  to  meet  at  Greenville  on  the  first  day  of  the 
meeting  of  the  Convention,  in  July,  1862.  Prayer  by 
Brother  Curtis. 

R.  FUEMAN,  Secretary. 


TREASURER'S    REPORT. 


C.  H.  JUDSON,    Treasurer,  in  account  with  the  Furman 

University. 

INCOME  ACCOUNT. 

1860.  Dr. 

July  26. — To  balance  in  Land  last  report $239  20 

Aug.    1. — Rec'dofRev.  W.  Brooker,  interest 14  00 

D.  H.  Rice,  interest 42  00 

Aug.    6. —                Rev.  J.  Trapp,  interest 42  00 

Jesse  Miller,  interest , 21  00 

Aug.    7.—                J.  D  Walker,  interest 2100 

Aug.  13. —                 J.  P.  Reed,  on  bond  of  O.  Shurley,  int'st  5  35 

Aug.  17.—                Wiley  Kelley,  interest 2100 

Aug.  29. —                 E.  Pringle,  interest 42  00 

Aug.  30. —                Rev.  I.  Nicholes,  interest 17  50 

Oct.   20. —                 Columbia  Bridge  Company,  interest....  12  00 

Nov.     1. —                J.  A.  Dargan,  on  bond  J.  Phillips,  int.  42  14 

Dec.  10.—                C  Felder,  interest 27  00 

Wm.  Knotts,  interest 21  00 

Dec.  25. —                 Mrs.  C  Maner,  interest 70  00 

R.  R.  Bostick,  interest 70  00 

W.  B.  Heriott,  interest 14  00 

Rev.  B.  S.  Sweat,  interest 10  00 

Dec.  28.—                Rev  W.  B.  Carson,  interest 10  00 

J.  M.  Vogt 15  60 

Tuition,  Fall  Term 1,601  50 

1861. 

Jan.     1.—                S.  &  U.  R.  R.  coupons 35  00 

Laurens  R.  R.  coupons 35  00 

Rev.  W.  B.  Johnson,  D.  D.,  interest...  35  00 
Rev.  W.  B.  Johnson,  for  F.  C.  Johnson, 

interest 21  00 

Jan.     7. —                D.  J.  AVilliams,  interest 14  00 

Henry  Davis,  Sr.,  interest 17  50 

Brooks,  Scruggs  &  Hawkins,  interest..  126  00 

Jan.  11.—                Col.  B.  H.  Brown,  interest 119  00 

Jan.  12.—                 B.  H.  Brock,  interest 2  10 

A.  B.  Estes,  interest 42  00 

Mrs.  Elvira  Estes,  interest 42  00 

C.  M.  Furman,  Esq.,  interest 35  00 

Jan.  15.—                S.  W.  R.  R.  Bank  dividend 60  00 


treasurer's  report.  131 

Jan.  16.— Rec'd  of  D.  W.  Holloway,  house  rent 200  00 

Rev.  T.  W.  Melichamp,  interest 15  00 

Jan.  19.—                  Rev.  J.  R.  Shurley,  interest 100  00 

W.  N.  Moore,  Treas.  Edgefield  Assoc'n  31  40 

Wm.  Mobley,  interest 42  00 

Jan.  31. —                 H.  A.  Glenn,  interest 65  00 

Feb.  10.—                Thos.  H.  Willingham,  interest 350  00 

Feb.  26.—                  J.  P.  Harley,  interest 86  25 

M'ch    2.—                  Kev.  J.  W.  Burn,  interest 42  00 

M'ch    6.—                 Thos.  P.  Lide,  interest 400  00 

Dr.  S.  M.  Pressley,  interest 49  00 

Rev.  J.  A.  W.  Thomas,  interest 11  75 

M'ch    7.—                Rev.  G-.  B.  Bealer,  interest 17  00 

Columbia  Bridge  dividend 12  00 

Jesse  Keith,  interest 42  00 

John  Courtenay,  interest 10  00 

Thos.  Willingham,  interest 42  00 

R.  J.  Willingham,  interest 70  00 

M'ch  11.—                Capt.  T.  A.  E.  Chovin,  interest 10  00 

J.  H.  Robert,  interest 70  00 

M'ch  13.—                 B.  F.  Mays,  interest 2100 

M'ch  14.—                Rev.  J.  O.  B.  Dargan,  interest 3  50 

M'chlS.—                 Wm.  Knotts,  interest 2100 

M'ch  25.—                 Rev.  W.  Brooker,  interest 14  00 

M'ch28.—                 Rev.  J.  R.   Shurley,  interest 10115 

Aprl  24. —                 John  Jennings,  interest 17  50 

Aprl  27. —                 Adna  Johnson,  interest 21  00 

May     5. —                 James  Fripp,  interest 10  00 

May  13. —                Col.  A.  J.  Lawton,  interest 26  25 

June  26.—                 Hon.  J.  B.  O'Neall,  interest 35  00 

June  30.—                 Prof.  J.  C.  Furman '. 166  60 

Tuition,  Spring  Term 1,043  50 


$6,087  79 

Contra.  ■ 

By  sundry  amounts  paid,  as  detailed  in  report,  viz  :        Cr. 

To  Prof.  J.  C.  Furman,  on  salary $1,351  60 

Prof  P.  C.  Edwards,  on  salary 1,067  86 

Prof.  C.  H.  Judson,  on  salary 750  00 

Prof.  J.  F.  Lanneau,  on  salary 715  00 

Mr.  E.  H.  Graham,  on  salary 500  00 

Mr.  J.  F.  Dargan,  on  salary..., 400  00 

V.  McBee,  interest 460  06 

Incidental  expenses 656  60 

L.  Golden,  McBryde  dividend 28  00 

Balance  in  hand 158  67 

$6,087  79 
13  == 


132  treasurer's  report. 


PRINCIPAL  account. 

1860.  Dr. 

To  balance  last  report $509  62 

"         "       Permanent  fund 83  76 

Aug.    13.— Becv'cl  of  0.  Shurley,  per  J.  P.  Reed 30  00 

Oct'r  25.—                  Dr.  J.  F.  Adams 100  00 

Nov'r     1.—                   J.  A.  Daro-an,  on  bond  J.  Phillips...  100  00 

Dec'r  25.—                   Mrs.  C.  Maner : 500  00 

K.  K.  Bostick 1,000  00 

1861. 

Jan'y     7.—                  D.J.Williams 200  00 

Jan'y  11. —                   Benjamin  Sanders 200  00 

April  17.—                  O.  E.  Sealy 100  00 

May       5. —                   James  Fripp 100  00 


82,923  38 


1861.                                        Contra.  Cr. 

M'ch  16. — By  amount  invested  in  Greenville  Gas  Co.  Stock. .$1,500  00 
Balance  due  this  fund 1,423  38 


$2,923  38 


LIBEAET  FUND. 

1861.  Dr. 

To  balance  last  report §489  95 

Initiation  fees,  Fall  Term 125  00 

Initiation  fees,  Spring  Term 75  00 

C.  H.  Judson,  Treasurer  Convention 7  35 

$697  30 

Contra.  Cr. 

By  paid  J.  C.  P.  Jeter,  for  books $69  80 

Balance  in  band 627  50 


$697  50 


C  H.  JUDSON,  Treasurer. 
July  1,  1861. 


MINUTES 

OF    THE 

SUNDAY  SCHOOL   CONVENTION, 

HELD   AT   SPARTANBURG,  JULY  26,  1861. 


Convention  of  brethren  in  behalf  of  Sunday  Schools. 
Appointed  Bro.  R.  Furma]st,  President,  and  ¥m.  Curtis, 
Secretary. 

Resolved,  That  the  brethren  delegated  to  form  this  Convention  he  re- 
quested to  hand  in  their  credentials. 

Resolved,  That  all  the  brethren  of  Baptist  Churches  present  he  invited  to 
become  members  of  this  Convention. 

Resolved,  That  the  Reports  of  the  Secretary  and  of  the  Agent  of  the 
Sunday  School  Board  of  the  South  Carolina  State  Convention,  be  called 
for  and  read  as  matter  of  information  for  this  Convention. 

The  Reports  were  read,  and,  after  remarks  of  an  inter- 
esting character  by  the  brethren,  the  Convention  adjourned, 
to  meet  at  8  o'clock,  P.  M. 

Adjourned  Meeting. 

Resolved,  That  any  communication  to  this  Convention  be  referred  to  a 
Committee  of  Brethren  B.  Manly,  Jr.,  J.  C.  Phelps,  and  J.  M.  C.  Breaker. 

After  able  and  interesting  addresses  by  Brethren  Broad- 
dus,  Breaker,  Huckins,  and  Elford,  the  Convention  ad- 
journed to  Friday  of  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the  Baptist 
State  Convention. 


A.     LIST 

OF 

BAPTIST  MINISTERS  IN  SOUTH  CAROLINA, 

"WITH  THEIR  POST  OFFICES. 


Those  marked  thus  (*x.)  are  Licentiates. 


NAMES. 

POST  OFFICES. 

NAMES. 

POST  OFFICES. 

Acker,  A. 

"White  Horse 

Burn,  J.  W. 

Society  Hill 

Adair,  John  (*l. 

)             West  Union 

Burris,  B. 

Anderson  C.  H. 

Allen,  Joel 

Marion  C.  H. 

Burris,  J. 

Anderson  C.  H. 

Anderson,  C.  A. 

T.             Greenville 

Burroughs,  J.  H. 

Pickens  C.  H. 

Asbel,  A.  W. 

Eidge 

Campbell,  T.  J.     Limestone  Springs 

Ashley,  "W". 

Craytonville 

Carpenter,  J.  31. 

Anderson 

Arial,  J. 

Pickensville 

Carpenter,  E.  J. 

Piereetown 

Atkinson,  S. 

Timmonsville 

Carson,  W.  B. 

Enoree 

Ayres,  Wm. 

Marion  C.  H. 

Cartledge,  A.  M. 

Winnsboro' 

Bair,  J.  (*L.) 

Orangeburg 

Cave,  B.  M. 

Barnwell  C.  H. 

Ballard,  W.  L. 

Cedar  Palls 

Chambers,  P. 

Hotse  Shoe 

Barnett,  M.  C. 

Spartanburg  C.  H. 

Chambliss,  J.  A. 

Sumter 

Bartlett,  H.  T. 

Lott's 

Chaplin,  W.  P.  (*L 

.)        Orangeburg 

Barton,  H.  M. 

Pair  Play 

Chapman,  J. 

Pickens  C.  H. 

Baskins,  J.  W. 

Eangsville 

Chastain,  B.  E. 

Highland  Grove 

Bateman,  J.  J. 

Society  Hill 

Chovin,  C.  E. 

Eobertville 

Baxley,  W.  C. 

Barnwell  C.  H. 

Coleman,  J.  D. 

Marion  C.  H. 

Bealer,  G.  B. 

Darlington 

Coleman,  J.  W. 

Dyson's 

Beattie,  W.  0. 

Bennettsville 

Collins,  E. 

West  Union 

Beck,  W. 

Darlington 

Collins,  G.  W.  (*h.) 

Greenville 

Bell,  G. 

Lott's 

Cooper,  J.  (*l.) 

Crop  Hill 

Berry,  L.  M. 

Merrittsville 

Cooper,  Wm. 

Williston 

Beverly,  W.  D. 

Gadsden 

Copeland,  J.  T. 

•    Plat  Eock 

Blythe,  D. 

South  Saluda 

Corley,  B.  F. 

Ninety-Six 

Boddie,  D. 

Graniteville 

Crane,  W. 

Milford 

Boiling,  H.  (*!,.) 

Orangeburg 

Crawley,  E.  A.,  D.D 

Limestone  Spg 

Bostick,  J.  M. 

Cheraw 

Croston,  J.  S.  (*L.) 

Pineville,  1ST.  C. 

Boyce,  Prof.  J.  P. 

,  D.  D.     Greenville 

Culpeper,  J. 

Timmonsville 

Boyd,  "W.  B. 

Chappell's  Depot 

Curry,  W.  L. 

Long  Myers 

Bradford,  E. 

Silverton 

Curtis,  Wm.,LL.D 

Limestone  Spg 

Brantly,  J.  J.,  D 

D.            Newberry 

Cuthbert,  Lucius 

Aiken 

Breaker,  C.  M. 

Charleston 

Cuttino,  D.  W. 

Manning 

Breaker,  D.  M. 

Monk's  Corner 

Dargan,  J.  0.  B. 

Darlington 

Breaker,  J.  M.  C 

Columbia 

Davenport,  J.  B. 

Calhoun 

Broaddus,  J.  A., 

D.  D.      Greenville 

Davis,  C.  J. 

Walterboro' 

Brooker,  W. 

Bull  Swamp 

Dawson,  Thos. 

Edisto 

Brookes,  J.  L. 

Hamburg 

Dean,  Jesse 

Greenville 

Brooks,  G.  W. 

Greenville 

Dill,  A. 

Gowensville 

Brooks,  B.  B.  (*l 

.)             Friendship 

Dill,  E. 

Highland  Grove 

Bruce,  E.  D. 

Townville 

Dill,  Thos. 

Highland  Grove 

Brunson,  Dan'l 

Duntonville 

Dozier,  A.  S. 

Mount  Willing 

Buist,  G.  P. 

Barnwell  C.  H. 

Drummond,  S. 

Woodruff's 

136 


LIST    OF    MINISTERS. 


NAMES.  POST  OFFICES. 

Druminond,  W.  "Woodruff"' s 

Duncan,  H.  D.  Barnwell  C.  H. 

Duncan,  H.  A.  Aiken 

Dunton,   Henry  Blackville 

Dupre,  L.  Darlington 

Durham,  A.  K.  Doko 

Durham,  I.  D.  Columbia 

Earle,  T.  J.  Gowensville 
Easterling,  T.  "W.  (*l.) 

Edwards,  Prof.  P.  C.  Greenville 

Edwards,  K.  J.  Orangeburg 

Elkin,  W.  B.  Gadsden 

Ezell,  J.  S.  Allgood 

Fail,  N.  Hickory  Head 

Pant,  D.  J.  Blackstock 

Pelder,  C.  Winnsboro' 

Penley,  L.  "West  Union 

Perguson,  B.  St   George 

Fewox,  J.  St.  George 

Plemming,  J.  J.  Sumter 

Port,  A.  H.  Lexington  C.  H. 

Pox,  Wm.  Walterboro' 

Fuller,  K.  W.  Beaufort 
Purman,  J.  C,  D.  D.          Greenville 

Purman,  K.,  D.  D.  Greenville 

Purman,  Sam'l  Stateburg 

Furze,  J.  J.  Calhoun 

Gaines,  1ST.  Lime  Creek 

Gaines,  T.  E.  (*L.)  Lime  Creek 

Garrison,  J.  (*L.)  Fort  Hill 

Getzen,  S.  P.  Hamburg 

Gibbes,  J.  (*l.)  Fair  Forest 

Gilbert,  J.  Fountain  Inn 

Givens,  P.  (*L.)  Beaufort 
Gordon,  Wm.  (*L.)         Union  C.  H 

Graham,  1ST.  Sumter 

Green,  J.  C.  Pleasant  Grove 

Grimes,  G.'C.  Laurens  C.  H. 

Gwaltney,  L.  E.  Edgefield 

Gwin,  W.  W.  Bidgeway 

Gwin,  T.  D.  Greenville 

Gwin,  J.  T.  (*l.)  Greenville 

Hanck,  B.  (*l.)  Cross  Hill 

Hartin,  W.  H.  Doko 

Havin,  T.  M.  Friendship 

Hawkins,  Pleasant  Grove 

Haws,  W.  Cool  Spring 

Havs,  B.  Anderson  C.  H. 

Head,  E.  Tunnel  Hill 

Head,  S.  Sandersville 

Hicks,  G.  W.  Brighton 

Hicks,  E.  Flintville 

Hiers,  M.  Walker's 

Higgins,  J.  B.  Columbia 

Hilliard,  D.  Spartanburg 

Hill,  J.  W.  St.  George 

Hill,  W.  P.  'Greenwood 


NAMES. 

Hinton,  L.  C. 
Hinton,  James  E 
Hitt,  W. 
Holder,  B. 
Holland,  E.  D.  ( 
Hoover,  J.  M. 
Horn,  A. 
Horn,  E. 
Huckins,  J.  H. 
Hudson,  D. 
Huffman,  J.  C. 
Hus:kson,  W.  E. 
Humphrey,  E.  M.  (*L. 
Huxford,  P.,  Sr. 
Huxford,  P.,  Jr. 
Isbell,  Sam'l 

Jackson  

Jeter,  P.  C. 
Jeter  E. 

Johnson,  W.  B.,  D.  D. 
Jones,  J.  C. 
Jones,  W.  (-L.) 
Jones,  W.  T. 
Kendrick,  J.  E. 
Kendrick,  J.  G. 

Kennemur, 

King,  E. 
King,  W.  H. 
Kitchens,  W 
Knight,  S. 
Lagroon,  J. 
Landrum,  J 
Lankford,  W. 
Lann,  W.  J. 
Lanneau,  C.  H. 
Lawton,  J.  A. 
Lawton,  J.  S. 
Lawton,  W.  A. 
Leavell,  J.  (*L.) 
Lecroy,  H. 
Lee,  U.  H. 
Linder,  J.  S. 
Lindsay,  E. 
Littlejohn,  F.  W. 
Long,  J.  L.  (*l.) 
Long,  W.  B.  (*l.) 
Looper,  T. 
Lynes,  Sam'l 
Lynes,  G. 
Lunn,  W.  (*l.) 
Mahon,  J.  D.  (*l/ 
Mahoney,  H.  W. 
Mackeverill,  Jas. 


POST  OFFICES. 

Chesterville 

St.  George 

Spring  Grove 

Twelve  Mile 

L.)        West  Union 

Buford's  Bridge 

Lott's 

Lott's 

Charleston 

Pickens  C.  H. 

Orangeburg 

Camden 

Friendship 


(*L.) 

D.  (* 


G. 


Fair  Play 

Myersville 

Fish  Dam 

Greenville 

Eogersville 

Eogersville 

Mt.  Crogan 

Charleston 

Pinckneyville 

Pickens  C.  H. 

Belton 

Greenville 

l.)  Calhoun 

Scuffletown 

Lott's 

Port  Prince 

Gowensville 

Timmonsville 

Greenville 

Allendale 

Allendale 

Lawtonville 

Anderson  C.  H. 

Fruit  Hill 

Columbia 

Walker's 

Holland 

Hurricane  Shoals 

Mt.  Willing 

Anderson  C.  H. 

Dacusville 

Monk's  Corner 

Monk's  Corner 

Greenville 

Columbia 

Friendship 

Darlington  C.  H. 


Manly,  B.,  Jr.,  D.  D.  Greenville 

Martin,  W.  J.  Marion  C.  H. 

Martin,  W.  P.  Gentsville 

Martin,  J,  H.  (*L.)  Laurens 


LIST    OF   MINISTERS. 


137 


NAMES. 

Mason,  T. 
Matthews,  J.  S. 
Matthis,  T. 
Mauldin,  B.  F. 
McCullum,  J.  (*l. 
McLemore,  J.  0. 
Mellichamp,  T.  W. 
Morrall,  J.  F. 
Morris,  E. 
Morse,  W.  L.  (*L.) 


POST  OFFICES. 

Camden 

Hamburg 

Mollohon 

"Williamston 

Camden 

Williston 

White  Cane 

Grahamville 

Graniteville 

Etfi  no-ham 


Morton,  W.  M.  Bachelor's  Ketreat 

Motes,  J.  Mountville 

Murray,  J.  S.  Anderson  C.  H. 

Nance,  J.  C.  Wellsville 

Napier,  E.  Mars  Bluff 

Nicholes,  I.  Privateer 

Nicholson,  P.  Pineville,  N.  C. 

Nix,  J.  Steep  Bottom 

Norman,  J.  L.  Cross  Keys 

Norris,  A.  P.  Granite ville 

Owens,  J.  Pickens  C.  H. 

Owens,  W.  C.  Port  Mill 

Page,  B.  Fingerville 

Parker,  L.  Walterboro' 

Parrott,  B.  F.  Darlington  C.  H. 
Peabody,  C.  W.  (*l.)     Bennettsville 

Perry,  B.  F.  D.  Barnwell  C.  H. 

Perry,  E.  (*L.)  Gillisonville 

Perryclear,  J.  S.  (*L.)  Beaufort 

Peterson,  J.  F.  Eichardson 

Phelps,  J.  C.  Society  Hill 

Philips,  G.  W.  Halseyville 

Phillips,  W.  E.  Greenville 

Pickett,  G.  W.  Camel  Hill 

Pope,  T.  H.  (*l.)  Newberry 

Porter,  C.  M.  Bidgewood 

Powell,  S.  Traveller's  Best 
Prickett,  J.  D.  (*l.)      St.  Matthews 

Profit,  J.  K.  Chappell's  Depot 

Eadford,  C.  J.  Greenville 

Bay,  J.  J.  Blackville 

Eay,  Thos.  Cross  Keys 
Eeynolds,  Prof.  J.L.,  D.D.    Columbia 

Eice,  A.  Storeville 

Eice,  "W.  D.  Sumter 

Eichards,  Wrn.  Savannah,  Ga. 

Pitcher,  S.  Walterboro' 

Eobertson,  T.  Scuffletown 

Eobinson,  J.  (*l)  Halseyville 

Eogers,  J.  E.  Camden 

Boilings,  G.  Pleasant  View 

Pollings,  L.  P.  Pleasant  Eiver 

Boilings,  J.  L.  Murry's  Ferry 

Eoper,  C.  Twelve  Mile 

Eoper,  T.  L.  North  Saluda 

Eoss,  John  Columbia 

Bunion,  J.  M.  Mush  Creek 


NAMES. 

POST  OFFICES. 

Sams,  M.  W. 

Aiken 

Saunders,  W.  T. 

Springtown 

Sawyer,  S.  B. 

Willow  Swamp 

Saxton,  W.  (*L.) 

Timmonsville 

Scruggs,  D. 

Cowpens 

Segler,  J.  A. 

Kitchen's  Mill 

Sharp,  M.  G. 

Columbia 

Shuck,  J.  L. 

Barnwell 

Simmons,  D. 

Town  ville 

Singleton,  W.  B. 

Fowler's  Creek 

Snicler,  W.  J. 

White  Cane 

Spagner,  D.  (*L.) 

St.  Matthews 

Spruell,  S. 

Simpson's  Mills 

Stepp,  A.  C. 

Line  Creek 

Stiles,  C.  A.  (-l.) 

Sumter 

Stone,  M.  F. 

Halsevville 

Stough,  A.  D.      Wheb's  Store,  N.  C. 

Suares,  M.  E. 

Barnwell  C,  H. 

Sullivan,  N. 

Walhalla 

Sweat,  J.  T. 

Steep  Bottom 

Thomas,  J.  A.  W. 

Bennettsville 

Timmons,  J.  M. 

Timmonsville 

Trapp,  John     Kirksey's  Cross  Eoads 

Turner,  E. 

Spartanburg 

Vandiver,  H. 

Silver  Glade 

Vann,  E.  E. 

Long  Bun 

Vaughn,  J.  C. 

Cross  Eoads 

Vaughn,  E. 

Calhoun 

Vernon,  J.  T.  W. 

Eoo'erville 

Walker,  George 

Walker's 

Wallace,  W.  L. 

Manning 

Walters,  W.  E. 

Anderson  C.  H. 

Watkins,  W. 

Orangeburg 

Watkins,  Z. 

Chappell's  Depot 

Weaver,  J.  M.  (*L 

.)           Friendfield 

West,  John 

WhitstoVn 

Whately,  E.  L. 

Beech  Island 

Whilden,  B.  W. 

White  Plains 

Whilden,  B.  F. 

Pineville 

Wilkins,  S.  B. 

Leavenworth 

Willbanks,  S. 

Silver  Glade 

Vfilliams,  W.,  D.  D.           Greenville 

Williams,  J.  G. 

Bobertsville 

Williams,  T.  G.  K 

irksey's  Cross  E'ds 

Wilson,  J.  J. 

Silver  Glade 

Wilson,  E.  J. 

Beaufort 

Wilson,  James 

Piercetown 

Winkler,  E.  T.,  D 

D.        Charleston 

Woodruff,  E. 

Woodruff* 

Woodward,  S.  C. 

Williston 

Woodward,  J.  A. 

Williston 

Woodward,  

Little  Pee  Dee 

Youmans,  J.  N. 

Hardyville 

Young,  J.  W.  (*L. 

) 

Young.  V. 

Hodges' 

Zealy,  J.  T. 

Doko 

Zeigler,  L.  G. 

Orangeburg 

138 


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